AP | QUITO, Ecuador (AP) – Ecuador's foreign minister resigned Tuesday after President Rafael Correa criticized his handling of negotiations to prevent oil drilling in a pristine Amazon reserve.Fander Falconi was the third government official to resign over a plan to seek international donations of $3 billion over the nex
All: 2010
Se resquebraja el proyecto Yasuní
BBC | Quito–El proyecto Yasuní-ITT, que busca dejar petróleo bajo tierra en la Amazonia ecuatoriana a cambio de un aporte económico de la comunidad internacional, se resquebraja.
Message from Ecuador to Chevron CEO John Watson
A heartfelt message from the Amazon rainforest communities in Ecuador to new Chevron CEO John Watson: "We don't want to continue dying of cancer."
Avatar and the Vocabulary of Evildoers – Or, Why James Cameron's Script Isn't as Bad as You Think
Huffington Post | While critics have unanimously agreed that the visual spectacle that is James Cameron's Avatar is beyond compare, there has been less enthusiasm for the plot line, which has been called out as flat and unoriginal.It's quite true that the movie's script – which centers on a tribe of indigenous creatures whose ancestra
Perupetro to start promoting new E&P round in February - Peru
Business News Americas | Peru's state hydrocarbons promotion agency Perupetro will next month kick off a road show to promote a new E&P round, according to agency head Daniel Saba.The agency will participate in the NAPE Expo in Houston in February and Latin Oil Week in Rio de Janeiro in March, state news agency Andina quoted Saba as sayi
Amazon Watch is building on more than 25 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
Battle for the Xingu
Iara Lee / Cultures of Resistance | Imagine if Hurricane Katrina was not a hurricane at all, but an event sponsored by the federal government, in collaboration with several multinational corporations. If your imagination fails you, then perhaps you'll get a clearer picture by learning about the people of the Xingu River.
